Idola Saint-JeanDate of issue of stamp: March 4, 1981Designed by: Dennis Goddard, based on a
painting by Muriel Wood

The stamp shows the portrait of Mme Saint-Jean
along with a vignette which is symbolic of her work as a feminist . The
background buildings are the Legislative Buildings of the Province of
Quebec.5,688,000 copies of the stamp were printed by
Canadian Bank Note Co. Ltd.

Idola Saint-Jean.
Born Montreal, Quebec 1880. She studied in Montreal and became a teacher
of the French language. However it would be her dedication to the fight
for women's rights, specifically the right to vote in her home province of
Quebec for which she would be best remembered. Quebec would be the last
province in Canada to grant the vote to women and the battle was won by
the direct efforts of women like Idola Saint-Jean. She founded the
Alliance canadienne pour le vote des femmes du Quebec. In 1991 the
Federation des femmes du Québec (FFQ) instituted Le Prix Idola Saint-Jean.